On resolving the MIPS gas branch reloc issue

[Eric Christopher]

On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:21, Dominic Sweetman wrote:
> 
> Eric Christopher (echristo@redhat.com) writes:
> 
> > Is he creating a new document or a new abi?
> 
> A new document, which is supposed to describe all the existing ABIs
> (o32, n32, n64).
> 

OK.

> I'm *not* very keen to transcribe bunches of C structures defining
> object files into acres of tables in a manual; but we haven't
> re-written anything about object files yet.
> 

Are you documenting what's written in code or what _should_ be written
in code?

> It isn't clear that n32/n64 are the right standards for embedded use,
> particularly in a world (unlike the SGI one where they were invented)
> which has 32-bit as well as 64-bit CPUs.  But knowing what we've got
> is a sensible first step to talking about anything else.
> 

I agree.

-eric

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